How to hide numerical category sorting from public view?

[Heskey]

Hi guys,

First time poster to the forum.

I'm trying to organise the categories on my prestashop into a specific order. I found another thread on this forum, and also this link (http://www.prestashop.com/wiki/Sorting_categories/) from the main website detailing how to organise categories by pre-fixing their name with '01. / 02.' etc...

This works a treat, but whilst '01.' is hidden from the category name in the back office and the category name on the website, the '01.' is still displayed on the publically-viewable category name on the website category drop-down menu.

How can you manually organise the order of prestashop categories without displaying your method?

Thanks.

[rocky]

PrestaShop v1.4 lets you organise categories using arrows like you can with products. In PrestaShop v1.3, your only option is to find the code that is writing the category position and use code like the following to hide it:

$name = Category::hideCategoryPosition($name);

[Emmanuel Paris]

Another easy solution is to use a regex-replace.
For example, in a .tpl file, instead of

{$product.category_default}

use :

{$product.category_default|regex_replace:"/^[0-9]+\./":" "}